how many girls/young women do you think avoid pursuing their natural interests because they see those interests mocked & derided for being female-friendly?
on a related note, remember how embarrassing it was for girls to love horses, and then adult men came along and grabbed my little pony? the fuck was that?
To a man centric society, our interests are to be mocked to keep us in place, while theirs is to be celebrated to lead them forward.
In Sherlock Irene Adler is just as obsessed with outwitting Holmes as he is with outwitting her, and I feel like that’s a fundamental misreading of the source material, because in Doyle’s version Holmes happens to get in Irene’s way, so she does the functional equivalent of trapping him under a cup, sliding a newspaper under him and dumping him out in the backyard.
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me before showering: i don’t want to shower
me once in the shower: i live here now
He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, […] with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features.
